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The Never-Ending Story: Structural Dilemmas and Changing Solutions in the Communication Field

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Mass Communication & Society, 10 (3): 251--273 (2007)
DOI: 10.1080/15205430701407116

Abstract

This article examines the idiosyncratic development of Israel's communication field against the backdrop of the field's main structural dilemmas: (a) emphasis on re- search orientation versus on professional journalistic training and (b) firm bound- aries for the field based on its mother disciplines (humanities or social sciences) ver- sus open boundaries adopting different disciplines' research topics/methods that touch on communication phenomena. The article suggests a theoretical framework based on criteria anchored in the sociology of science and then applies these criteria to an analysis of the institutionalization and development of the Communication In- stitute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from its foundation in 1964 through the 1990s. The study is based on documents from the university archive and the Guttman Institute for Applied Social Research, curricula and catalogs of communication de- partments in Israel, and interviews with senior researchers in the field.

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